by: Carey Roberts
CareyRoberts @comcast.net
"No woman should be authorized to stay at home to raise her children. Society should be totally different. Women should not have that choice, precisely because if there is such a choice, too many women will make that one."
That chilling commentary comes from fem-socialist Simone de Beauvoir, in her famous 1974 interview in The Saturday Review.
So what happens when the radical feminist agenda becomes the law of the land? That is not a mere hypothetical question. It can be answered by turning the pages of history back to the tragic early days of Soviet Russia.
When Lenin’s Bolsheviks seized the levers of power in 1917, Lenin faced the daunting challenge of jump-starting agricultural and industrial production. So he cast his eye on a vast, untapped workforce: peasant women. Parroting the Marxist line on female oppression:
http://www.ifeminists.net/introduction/editorials/2004/0106roberts.html
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Lenin incited women to action at the First All Russia Congress of Working Women:
“The status of women up to now has been compared to that of a slave; women have been tied to the home, and only socialism can save them from this.”
http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1918/nov/19.htm
In short order, Lenin pushed through laws assuring women equal pay for equal work and the right to hold property.
But as Simone de Beauvoir pointed out, many women would be tempted to go back to the old ways to tend to hearth and home. So the traditional family would need to be abolished. Lenin understood that fact, as well.
So in 1918, Lenin introduced a new marriage code that outlawed church ceremonies. Lenin opened state-run nurseries, dining halls, laundries, and sewing centers. Abortion was legalized in 1920, and divorce simplified
http://www.newyouth.com/archives/theory/women/women_in_soviet_union.asp
In a few short years, most of the functions of the family had been expropriated by the state. By 1921, Lenin could brag that
“in Soviet Russia, no trace is left of any inequality between men and women under the law.”
http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1921/mar/04.htm
But Lenin’s dream of gender emancipation soon dissolved into a cruel nightmare of social chaos.
First, the decline of marriage gave rise to rampant sexual debauchery. Party loyalists complained that comrades were spending too much time in love affairs, so they could not fulfill their revolutionary duties
http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/26jul/russianwoman.htm
Not surprisingly, women who were sent out to labor in the fields and the factories stopped having babies. In 1917, the average Russian woman had borne six children. By 1991, that number had fallen to two. This fertility free-fall is unprecedented in modern history
http://www.rand.org/publications/CF/CF124/CF124.chap2.html#history
But it was the children who were the greatest victims. As a result of the break-up of families, combined with civil war and famine, countless numbers of Russian children found themselves without family or home. Many ended up as common thieves or prostitutes:
http://texts.cdlib.org/dynaxml/servlet/dynaXML?docId=ft700007p9&chunk.id=ch4
In his recent book Perestroika, Mikhail Gorbachev reflected on 70 years of Russian turmoil:
“We have discovered that many of our problems -- in children’s and young people’s behavior, in our morals, culture and in production -- are partially caused by the weakening of family ties.”
Fem-socialists, hell-bent on achieving a genderless society, are now scheming to repeat the same disastrous experiment in Western society. Naturally, they are hoping that you not hear the story of family destruction in Soviet Russia.